“This is a very significant day where we’re about to move into the future,” Lee First Selectman Bob Jones said of the Eagle Mill Redevelopment Project at the July 24 event. “This development is going to change the way is perceived and is going to make a lot of people’s lives better."
Preserving our county s historic spaces and boosting affordable housing stock in the Berkshires are two endeavors we like to see. It s especially encouraging to see both pursued in one ambitious
Demolition of 200-year-old row houses fronting the abandoned Eagle Mill marks the start of a three-phase affordable and workforce housing complex, with phase one expected to be completed in 18
The project would transform a long empty mill and several vacant houses into more than 120 apartments some of them affordable as well as a mix of commercial,
LEE â The Eagle Mill developer has landed an eight-figure sum in state financing that likely will jump-start the reuse of the former papermaking factory by yearâs end.
The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development has awarded Eagle Mill Redevelopment LLC $16 million in housing tax credits to finance the construction of 56 affordable and market-rate housing units in the historic Union Mill and Eagle Mill buildings.
In all, the mixed-use project will have 122 apartments; the other 66 will be located in newly constructed buildings in the eastern portion of the downtown property. In addition, six condominiums will be built on-site along the Housatonic River.